Re: super slow client startup [partial solution]

> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 11:17:27 -0500
> From: Matthew Gordon <[email protected]>
> 
> I've been using the cvs version of sfs (0.8pre) with a decent amount
> of success for a month or two now, but had seriously problems with the
> amount of time it would take for the client to start. The time would
> range from 20-50 minutes before the client initialized.

You probably just need to run the portmap daemon, and whatever scripts
you have to start the NFS server just happen to be running portmapper.

Basically, in some versions of linux, when you make an NFS mount
system call, the kernel wants to talk to the portmapper on the NFS
server.  I'm not exactly sure why.  It may be in order to see if the
server is running the NFS locking protocol software.  It doesn't use
the portmapper to figure out what port the NFS server is using (since
that is supplied as part of the mount arguments).

David